The Ego vs. The Heart

The source for all our problems and suffering lies in the identification with the ego/mind.

The ego/mind creates constant thinking, conflict, negativity, pain, duality and it has tricked you into believing that you are IT.

Its a big lie and the most important illusion to wake up from.

The truth is:

You are not your mind.

You are not your ego.

And you are not the thoughts that cross the mind.

It is all just vanity and pride to think that your thoughts, self-made identity and thinkingness are so important and the center of your life.

Here comes the truth:

The truth of what you are IS Love.

Infinite love that expresses itself temporarily through this human body.

And you feel it in your heart. Not the mind.

The truth of this can be subjectively experienced and realized by making a consistent effort to break the identification with the ego/mind, surrendering all its cherished little bullshit illusions, getting off of the addiction to the cheap kick of pride and vanity and self-aggrandizement (all powerful or victim are both ego illusions and are both intrinsically narcissistic), judgmentalism and repeatedly connecting with your heart instead.

It is a choice to make over and over which progressively weakens the illusionary identification with the ego/mind.

It is a choice. And you have to make it over and over.

You are not your ego.

You are not your mind.

If you want to end suffering and being towed around by the nose by the ego with its constant demands and needs, its chase after pleasure and its pseudo attempts of avoiding pain, to then give you another list of things to get in order to allow you a little temporary break of pseudo happiness until it starts all over again, if you have enough of this way of being and living, the only way out is through your heart and to find and connect with the truth of what you are which is Love.

To get there you have to let go off the kicks you get out of it and the secret addiction to pain the ego gets out of suffering itself (the ego loves to juice pain, it makes it feel special).

Radical self honesty is key and the ego will be kicking and screaming but that's the way it is until it is replaced with love.🙂

Love does not come from the mind.

The mind does not even know what love is. It is incapable of loving. It can’t. In fact it is rather scared of it because it knows that love spells the end of its reign. The mind is a cold and heartless master to follow and it will lead you into the house of mirrors every time.

It is the most important choice to make in ones life.

Ego or the heart.

Fear or love.

Mind or Heart.

Thinkingness or Lovingness.

Take your pick.

Most people pick the former and get high on false pride and the cheap little kicks the ego hands out because they don't know that there is a so much more rewarding way of living once the mind and ego has lost its grip.

The pleasures of the ego cannot compare to the effortless inner bliss, joy and peace that comes from the way of the heart and living from it.

The ego is a shitty drug dealer handing out shitty drugs indeed.

When we have become enslaved to our minds our life's are bound to repeat in endless cycles of pseudo relief and endless suffering.

The identification with the ego and the mind equals slavery to a cruel and heartless master setting you up for pain and suffering for life. There is no way out within the confines of the identification with ones mind.

The mind sets you up for pleasure chasing, pain avoiding and suffering until we maybe one day finally get it that it is the wrong master to follow.

I feel it is by grace or accumulated positive karma but whatever it is to finally being able to make that choice is not personal, it is a gift.

A choice you are given.

Thinkingness or Lovingness.

Ego or the Heart.

If there is one, there can't be the other.

If you truly want love in your life, the mind has to go.

The ego has to die.

If you want love in your life, you actually have to BECOME LOVE.

Read that again....

There is no other way.

The thing is what the world considers to be love is not what love actually is.

The world sees love as something you get and therefore it is something you can loose.

It is conditional and it is only happening rarely and by accident.

But the truth is Love is not an emotion.

In truth love is ALL THERE IS.

It is the essence and truth of what you ARE, when all the clouds and illusions are removed.

It is a state of being in the world, a level of consciousness, that is chosen as a way of holding yourself and making the consistent choice of choosing love (truth) instead of all the other pseudo tempting little ego kick alternatives (illusions) (like Anger, Pride, Vanity, Guilt, Shame).

It can be subjectively experienced as a consistent state of being, and stance that is ever present, the source of your existence, the truth of what you are. A subjective reality that can be felt emanating from ones own existence independent of external factors or conditions. It is ever present, but to subjectively experience this the mind and its cherished little illusions have to go.

I got so annoyed with my mind pretty early in life, in my late teens and early twenties. I saw its little tricks and started to consciously observe what this little fucker was up to. :D

Its endlessly repetitive, self serving and self loathing, loves to juice its own story, victimhood, avoiding accountability and tells us garbage most of the time.

It truly is not your amigo.

I declared early in life that I wont allow myself to be towed around by my mind and ego, which doesn't even have my best interest at heart and choose to connect with my heart instead. Over and over and over. It has become the practice of my life.

Its a decision and choice you will not regret as you get out of your head, practice connecting with the silence, surrender thinkingness and start to focus on your heart instead and you will find love and the infinite field of consciousness as the source of your existence you will have tears of emotionless joy running down your cheeks.

It is the practice of a lifetime.

Once you are there, synchronicities will start to happen. Things will happen as the result of you having become love and the universe will align itself with you as you have become one with the source of all that is. Everything will flow and it will be blissful and peachy.....for a time.....

And then you will get tested.

Once you hit the higher states of love through real spiritual work most likely you are going to attract the darkest of the dark into your life, like moths to a flame, people and experiences that are going to try to steer you off the path and you will loose that connection to the truth once more....for a while....until you recover.

If you are not aware of the pitfalls and temptations of this path the world will suck you in again and the mind returns and gets you once more.

As you progress and advance spiritually you will get tested by the world which will try to steer you off the path and pull you down over and over. It happened to me, and I lost it more than once. You will know when it happens by the way you feel.....because not being aligned with the truth of what you are is painful.

So the amount of pain and suffering in your life is an indicator that you are living in illusions, being identified with your ego and the coldness of the mind again.

Being in truth is joyful.

Being in truth is happiness independent from external factors.

So when you are in pain, you are not aligned with truth, with what you are.

Illusions are painful.

But by grace you will get back and see the illusions for what they are as you get back on the path and let go off the mind again and again and finding your heart once more.

Love and God are always there, Love and God are one and the same.

Love is the truth of what you are.

You ARE love.

Our minds just preclude the awareness of this truth.

If we let it.

To let go of the mind, you have to choose against it. You have to choose love and you have to surrender your cherished little self serving illusions over and over.... all the little junkie kicks the ego gets out of self-importance and pride.

One has to see through its childlike illusions and choose to let it all go and move from the brain/head into the heart in each and every decision over and over again.

Many have made their minds into their gods. In secret the mind and ego believes that it IS god. It is the core of narcissism that is present in some degree or the other in all of us.

It is the basic illusion and trick of the ego to convince you that it IS you.

It is the cause of all suffering because it precludes the awareness of love that is all there is and ever present and the source of your existence.

The mind will literally lead you into hell each and every time.

True happiness can never be found from following the mind.

You don't need the mind.

You gonna be fine without it.

You are way more intelligent connecting with the infinite field of consciousness and love instead of trying to work out things with your little stupid mind.

Intellectualism is a very low form of intelligence, bound to linearity, duality and cause and effect. Its cute that the mind thinks it knows. But it does not know truth from falsehood and it cannot tell perception from essence.

The mind is incredibly stupid and very limited compared to the field of consciousness, there are higher levels indeed.

Higher intelligence comes from the heart, it is non local, nonlinear.

It is love itself.

So the trick to transcending the mind is to see it for what it is. An imposter that keeps you stuck in the illusion that you are the source of your own existence, a separate entity, separate from love and God.

So in a nutshell:

Screw the mind. :)

Its time to let it all go.

Let go of pride.

Let go of specialness.

Let go of vanity.

Let go of ego.

Now here is the most important step.

The mind in and of itself cannot transcend itself.

It is locked in the house of mirrors evaluating and judging itself.

Personal will is not enough to get out of it. You gonna need a laser-like declaration of intention and a higher power to help with it cause the ego wont give up easily and can not see itself out of the illusions it is so invested in.

Asking God for help is the way.

You need a higher power for this task, you can call it God, Consciousness, Source, The Field whatever you prefer, it is all the same.

Sidenote: When I use the term God, I don't refer to the God as depicted by religion (judgmental, having his favorite few etc) which is a projection of the ego of mankind and inherently false. But instead of God as the infinite field of consciousness, Unconditional love, the source of your existence throughout all time and space permeating everything, the essence of all that is).

Surrender all your cherished illusions to God and connect with your heart.

Stay there and feel the love that is emanating from within and through you with every breath you take connecting you to the ever present reality of unconditional love and inner knowing that supersedes thinking-ness by far.

Who wants to think when you can know.

Who wants to think when you can BE love instead.

Love is what you are.

Everything else is illusion.

Take your pick!

Oliver

www.EnlightenedInnerGame.com

P.S. If you want guidance and assistance in navigating out of a negative experience or help with something else regarding your spiritual journey, just shoot me a message here. It's time to align with the truth of what you are and let go of all these illusions that keep you stuck.

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